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Special Weather Statement, NWS St. Louis, MO

July 8, 2016Moniteau County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this special weather statement at Jul 8, 2016, 1:36 AM CDT for Moniteau County, Missouri. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 8, 2016, 1:36 AM CDT (06:36 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2016, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO

County Moniteau County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 226 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2840 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -157 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1070 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 329 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 10.7

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 8, 12:02 AM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 12:02 AM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 3:53 PM CDT, 9 hours 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 8, 1:36 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
136 AM CDT FRI JUL 8 2016

MOZ041-047-048-080715-
BOONE MO-COLE MO-MONITEAU MO-
136 AM CDT FRI JUL 8 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN COLE...MONITEAU AND
SOUTH CENTRAL BOONE COUNTIES UNTIL 215 AM CDT...

AT 135 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
CLARKSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CALIFORNIA...ASHLAND...ST. MARTINS...RUSSELLVILLE...JAMESTOWN...
CLARKSBURG...CENTERTOWN...EASLEY...MCGIRK...MARION...HARTSBURG...
WILTON...KLIEVER AND SANDY HOOK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3869 9274 3868 9262 3870 9261 3885 9253
      3880 9222 3850 9241 3863 9277
TIME...MOT...LOC 0635Z 290DEG 23KT 3872 9260

BYRD

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 11:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LSX	Boone	6 hr
Jul 8, 12:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LSX	Callaway, Cole	5 hr
Jul 8, 2:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Gasconade, Osage	21 min
Jul 8, 4:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LSX	Reynolds	50 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.